I immediately smiled on seeing this card. When it's not hosing graveyard decks or hexproof creatures, a 1/1 flier and 4 life is still pretty great at instant speed.
This might even be good enough for Legacy. This is basically Kaya’s Command, and all the modes except the life gain are at least situationally very good. This should see plenty of Modern sideboards, and maybe some mainboard play.
Pretty powerful all the modes alone feel like could be costed at CMC 3 so you always getting your mana worth.
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How is Kaya in ANY way different from the other silly, designed-by-committee protagonists they've crammed into the Jacetice League... ahem... Magic Avengers... ahem... Gatewatch? Every. Last. One of them is New Coke.
How is Kaya in ANY way different from the other silly, designed-by-committee protagonists they've crammed into the Jacetice League... ahem... Magic Avengers... ahem... Gatewatch? Every. Last. One of them is New Coke.
(Except Ajani.)
They are talking more like how much spot light they are giving her in the last year (2 new Pw cards, 2 very good control cards)
The character semi-development (discovering she got played by evil dictators/masterminds (marchesa and bolas respectively))(not understanding that some times the best solutions are the diplomatic ones instead of the take the power ones, I mean, we know the next Ravnica set the orzhov will be all right but that should not be the case imo) is normal and I think people are okish with that, just the lame way they are doing that is what is bothering. This is like what happened to domri and Dovin but no one give a crap about their fate (Dovin is blind now ) (domri bitted the dust). They gave to her a lot of spotlight in a very short time and in storyline that should focus in theory more in the long term characters and imo spread the love for new characters. Although we can say that she was a old character for a lot of eternal players imo having kaya be the new Jace or the new Chandra don’t make the exposure of those walkers that is a issue for a lot of people less of a issue because it is a new planeswalker.
But we have to face the truth: the gatewatch will be the main players, and lets be honest, having Karn and Teferi (old characters that finally returned, even if bad writhen) and new characters that will only appear in each 3 years is better than keep following 4-6 characters. For exemple I doubt we will see anything related to teyo or Karn-teferi (that is not a reprint) in any eternal product this year.
I feel like this could be previewing a cycle of enemy colored commands w/ entwine. Given that each of the talismans quoted another enemy colored planeswalker, we could be seeing Vraska's ..., Ral's ..., etc.
How is Kaya in ANY way different from the other silly, designed-by-committee protagonists they've crammed into the Jacetice League... ahem... Magic Avengers... ahem... Gatewatch? Every. Last. One of them is New Coke.
(Except Ajani.)
There's a pretty glaring différance here, let's be honest.
She has a neat character design and her ongoing plot so far at least lends itself to maybe developing flaws and hangups. This is a big step compared to previous characters, who conform to archetypes and don't really have personalities at all. Ixalan stories were better than the norm for the same reason. That's all we can really hope for, regardless of the character's color, mana or otherwise.
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Is this the first Entwine spell with more than two modes?
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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As happy as I am with the card, Kaya as a character seems to be forced almost as if they’re trying to make her a main protagonist post WAR.
I agree with this. Kaya is reaching former Jace levels here. This card is fantastic, but with the amount of jumping through walls to kill people she does, you'd think they'd have some sorrt of ecto-trap and go back to their poker games. I would have preferred another art direction, as nothing in this card art calls to mind trickery or cleverness, just "stabby time!".
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yeah its one of those odd cases im glad there isnt enough room for flavor text, because i know it would have been bad.
great card though. instant speed 3 cmc command with relevant modes, and if you ever get to entwine its just icing (speaking for modern). not sure where itll end up, but its priced to move.
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Modern: UWGSnow-Bant Control BURGrixis Death's Shadow GWBCoCo Elves WCDeath and Taxes (sold)
Interesting note if this is played against this Modern deck: if you choose the first two modes, and they sacrifice the creature with a bunch of auras on it, the only thing that should be put into the graveyard is the creature itself, and not the stack of auras on it. THEN the creature and the rest of the graveyard gets exiled. Once this spell resolves, THEN state based effects are checked, and the game sees a bunch of auras floating around attached to nothing, and get out into the graveyard immediately. They are NOT exiled as part of this spell resolving.
Interesting note if this is played against this Modern deck: if you choose the first two modes, and they sacrifice the creature with a bunch of auras on it, the only thing that should be put into the graveyard is the creature itself, and not the stack of auras on it. THEN the creature and the rest of the graveyard gets exiled. Once this spell resolves, THEN state based effects are checked, and the game sees a bunch of auras floating around attached to nothing, and get out into the graveyard immediately. They are NOT exiled as part of this spell resolving.
I feel like this could be previewing a cycle of enemy colored commands w/ entwine. Given that each of the talismans quoted another enemy colored planeswalker, we could be seeing Vraska's ..., Ral's ..., etc.
God I hope so. That's honestly what Ravnica needed.
This one is so gross especially edh
Oh and ofcoarse hello entwine mechanic
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Surprised they they went with such a new character for this set.
Oath of Kaya didn't clue you into that?
Pretty powerful all the modes alone feel like could be costed at CMC 3 so you always getting your mana worth.
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Jacetice League... ahem...Magic Avengers... ahem... Gatewatch? Every. Last. One of them is New Coke.(Except Ajani.)
They are talking more like how much spot light they are giving her in the last year (2 new Pw cards, 2 very good control cards)
The character semi-development (discovering she got played by evil dictators/masterminds (marchesa and bolas respectively))(not understanding that some times the best solutions are the diplomatic ones instead of the take the power ones, I mean, we know the next Ravnica set the orzhov will be all right but that should not be the case imo) is normal and I think people are okish with that, just the lame way they are doing that is what is bothering. This is like what happened to domri and Dovin but no one give a crap about their fate (Dovin is blind now ) (domri bitted the dust). They gave to her a lot of spotlight in a very short time and in storyline that should focus in theory more in the long term characters and imo spread the love for new characters. Although we can say that she was a old character for a lot of eternal players imo having kaya be the new Jace or the new Chandra don’t make the exposure of those walkers that is a issue for a lot of people less of a issue because it is a new planeswalker.
But we have to face the truth: the gatewatch will be the main players, and lets be honest, having Karn and Teferi (old characters that finally returned, even if bad writhen) and new characters that will only appear in each 3 years is better than keep following 4-6 characters. For exemple I doubt we will see anything related to teyo or Karn-teferi (that is not a reprint) in any eternal product this year.
There's a pretty glaring différance here, let's be honest.
She has a neat character design and her ongoing plot so far at least lends itself to maybe developing flaws and hangups. This is a big step compared to previous characters, who conform to archetypes and don't really have personalities at all. Ixalan stories were better than the norm for the same reason. That's all we can really hope for, regardless of the character's color, mana or otherwise.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
I agree with this. Kaya is reaching former Jace levels here. This card is fantastic, but with the amount of jumping through walls to kill people she does, you'd think they'd have some sorrt of ecto-trap and go back to their poker games. I would have preferred another art direction, as nothing in this card art calls to mind trickery or cleverness, just "stabby time!".
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Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
great card though. instant speed 3 cmc command with relevant modes, and if you ever get to entwine its just icing (speaking for modern). not sure where itll end up, but its priced to move.
UWGSnow-Bant Control
BURGrixis Death's Shadow
GWBCoCo Elves
WCDeath and Taxes(sold)Also, this
Modern: WUBRG Humans - GBW Traverse - GWU Knightfall - GRW Bushwhacker Zoo -
gryff's boon too stronk
UWGSnow-Bant Control
BURGrixis Death's Shadow
GWBCoCo Elves
WCDeath and Taxes(sold)God I hope so. That's honestly what Ravnica needed.
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You know, I wouldn't mind seeing her be a little antagonistic. A little evil Kaya and Huatli could go a long way